Modern education, especially as exists in
the government controlled public schools, has deteriorated continually
over the past 100 years. There are no "education specialists" who aren't
actually behavioral psychologists or psychiatrists. The field of
psychology has very much taken over the public school system, and is
doing its best to take over private schools. Instead of stressing basics
such as reading, writing and arithmetic, modern educational techniques
push a curriculum of belief manipulation, attitude adjustment, and
politically correct indoctrination, while also concentrating on the
student's feelings, personal experiences and values. Find out why
touchy-feely notions have replaced basic learning, appeals to students'
emotions have replaced expanding the intellect, and wacky faddish
psychological theories parade as "scientific" fact.

Find out:

Why our kids rank near to, or at the bottom of international
tests in math and science

How various "learning disorders" are created through faulty
reading methods developed by behavioral psychologists.

How the educational establishment lowers standards and quality
in our schools - while continuing to raise their budgets and our
school taxes

Phonics had been used successfully in the USA and Europe for many years
to teach children how to read. It supplies the student with tools to expand
their vocabulary. The look-see or whole-language approach (also known as
"psycholinguistics"), developed by modern psychologists, denies the students
these tools, and instead forces them to learn through rote memorization.
Find out details about both, and why students read poorer due to being
forced to "learn to read" with the look-see methods.

Given its importance, it is not surprising that the dispute over the
teaching of reading is the site of some of the most intense and emotional
battles in the school wars. Reading is at the heart of education, the basic
skill upon which all others are built. The most dramatic declines in the
achievement levels of American students have been in their literacy. SAT
verbal scores have reached historic lows, while national surveys have put
the number of functionally illiterate Americans in the tens of millions.

Find out why modern psychological theories fail to educate but still
receive continual endorsements.

The Reading
Wars - In the mid-1950s, Flesch warned in the best-selling book
Why Johnny Can't Read that American schools would produce a generation
of illiterates if they continued to rely on faddish techniques for teaching
reading. At the time Flesch wrote, American education was dominated by the
"look-say" method of teaching instead of teaching children how to sound out
words, the so-called phonetic method that had been used for generations,
students were encouraged to look at and recognize the whole word. Read the
whole story.

The Look-Say
Reading Scam - A detailed look at the method, what it is, how it
is used, and why it won't ever work. The look-say reading methods were
developed around 1810 for deaf mutes. The system works well for deaf mutes,
but there is no obvious reason to use it for those who have the ability to
hear sounds. Read how and why it became adopted for teaching normal
students, and why it disables effective learning.

Functional Illiteracy - Dyslexia, and other Reading Difficulties "Caused"
- A detailed look at how the psych-oriented whole-language method, subverts
reading ability and, in fact, causes numerous modern reading
disabilities. In addition, these reading problems are promoted as having
other causes, genetic and biological, which are "treated" primarily with
drugs. This further harms the ability of the child to ever be able to read
and learn, because the drugs given (which don't cure anything at all), act
to add further cognitive dysfunction, cloudy thinking, and emotional
numbing.

Dyslexia: The Man-Made Disease - the kind of reading difficulties
afflicting perfectly normal children in our schools today are being caused
by the teaching methods and not by any defect in the children themselves.
The educators have been telling us for years now that the reason why so many
children are having problems learning to read is because of a learning
disability they've been born with. Read the facts.